Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday Harvard faced the University of Nevada-Reno, a team with an undefeated record entering the game. The Wolfpack quickly took the match in three straight games, 15-9, 15-8 and 15-11, bringing its record to seven wins and no losses...
...Titans took the first game, 11-15. The Crimson stormed back to take two in a row, 16-14 and 15-12. After Cal State-Fullerton won the fourth game, it jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, closing out the match with a 9-15 game...
...Mustangs took the first game 13-15, but the Crimson rebounded with a 15-11 game victory. After a split of games, the Mustangs won the match with a 7-15 fifth game...
...days before they finished writing the Constitution, the men working on it stumbled on an unresolved question: Under what circumstances should Congress be able to impeach the President? No doubt tired of parsing legalisms after months of work, they took only about five minutes to dispense with the constitutional crisis. They had already decided that treason and bribery were no-brainers--definitely grounds for impeachment--but George Mason of Virginia said he was concerned that those two crimes didn't capture "many great and dangerous offenses." So he suggested adding "maladministration" to the list of impeachable no-nos. When others...
...fizzle, with three and then four candidates having refused the job. Of the current crowd, a former high-ranking White House official says, "They were all kind of standing around waiting to see if he would ever come to Jesus, waiting to see where his head was. The staff took its lead from him." In fairness, too, staff members never knew what the facts were, and the lawyers wouldn't tell them. They had no choice but to wait for signs from the top. An aide, asked what the strategy is, said the President will continue to talk...